Mainnet 1.7.1

This release targets the mainnet network and the testnet network.
For mainnet this release is backwards compatible with the previous v1.X.X releases.
For testnet this release is backwards compatible with previous v1.6.1+ releases.

What's Changed

What's changed

• web-client: Make pico the default sync mode in the client configuration by @jsdanielh in #3823
• feat(primitives): add per-fork upgrade activation registry by @jsdanielh in #3829
• rpc-client: add CLI subcommands for missing RPC methods by @jsdanielh in #3832
• bls: speed up signature verification with one multi-Miller loop by @jsdanielh in #3825
• validator: cache hash-to-G1 points in the Handel verifiers by @jsdanielh in #3826
• ci: Remove unexistent feature from test compilation by @jsdanielh in #3834
• Remove pow-migration crate by @viquezclaudio in #3837
• Properly set up RequestProposal receive request handlers by @nibhar in #3827
• validator: fix version-upgrade trigger by @jsdanielh in #3808
• Add protocol-upgrade signaling dashboard (web client) by @paberr in #3836
• web-client: build the types target in the upgrade-dashboard compose by @viquezclaudio in #3846
• Fix panic when reverting a jail penalty by @jsdanielh in #3848
• fix(primitives): bound validator slot total in Validators deserialize by @jsdanielh in #3849
• Prevent modulo-by-zero panic from over-covering punished set by @jsdanielh in #3850
• Fix non-terminating loop in MMR proof verification by @jsdanielh in #3851
• trie: reject ROOT key in apply_diff complete-part branch by @jsdanielh in #3852
• blockchain: compute reward recipients from the in-flight txn by @jsdanielh in #3853
• genesis: refresh MainAlbatross checkpoint election block by @jsdanielh in #3854

Dependencies

• build(deps): bump the minor-and-patch-cargo-updates group across 1 directory with 5 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #3822
• build(deps): bump hashlink from 0.11.1 to 0.12.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3802
• build(deps): bump itertools from 0.14.0 to 0.15.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3831
• build(deps): bump the minor-and-patch-cargo-updates group across 1 directory with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #3840
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #3838
• build(deps): bump prometheus-client from 0.24.1 to 0.25.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3824

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.7.1